Last month, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates casually stated on a late-night talk show that within a decade, humans wouldn’t be needed ‘for most things.’
At SaaSBoomi 2025—India’s pre-eminent software-as-a-service (SaaS) conclave—the chatter was about turning Gates’ prophecy into reality. The conversation had moved past traditional software markets—now measured at a few hundred billion dollars annually—towards a far bigger target.
With the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicting that artificial intelligence (AI) will affect nearly 40% of jobs worldwide, replacing some and complementing others, founders want to use it to disrupt the trillion-dollar pool of money businesses spend annually on human labour.
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